Raven Row is a non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre in Spitalfields.
Raven Row’s programme is intended to appeal both to a specialist audience and a broader, curious public. It is led by a desire to test art's purpose outside the market place. It exhibits diverse work of the highest quality, often by established international artists, or those from the recent past, who have somehow escaped London's attention. However, the programme will remain improvisatory and un-dogmatic, and the qualities that might constitute Raven Row’s success, its ‘cultural value’, will remain open to question
In Conversation: Tam Joseph & Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton
Revisit a conversation between artist Tam Joseph and art historian Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, celebrating the publication of Four Corners Books’ I Know What I See, the first major survey of Tam Joseph’s career.
‘With the wry observations of his concerted, determined and engaging international reach, Joseph is in so many respects the absolute embodiment of diaspora. But perhaps we’d do better to simply describe Joseph as a world citizen, one who is as deeply engaged with history as he is with geography, and formidably engaged with artistic innovation.’
— Eddie Chambers, Introduction to Tam Joseph: I Know What I See, 2023
For over 40 years, Tam Joseph’s work has taken him in many different directions, but it is grounded in a sensibility which revels in the connections between things, as well as the creative possibilities of human perception.
Some of Joseph’s paintings reflect on his own history and the history of injustices faced by African Caribbean people in Britain. Other works draw inspiration from diverse sources including cinema, music, and sport, as well as the natural world and the history of painting itself. Whether his subject is landscape, portrait or history, Joseph employs his deep knowledge of paintings of the past to create work which invites viewers to consider these genres afresh.
Tam Joseph lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in many public collections including the Arts Council Collection, Tate and V&A.
Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton is an art historian, focusing on British artists of African and Asian descent. She is based at University of the Arts London’s Decolonising Arts Institute, where her research focuses on collecting, interpretation and display practices in public museums and heritage organisations.
Four Corners Books is an independent publisher and charity, which shared space with Raven Row between 2009 and 2020.
4 Aug 2023
Ibon Aranberri in conversation with Miren Jaio and Alex Sainsbury
Listen back to a conversation between artist Ibon Aranberri, art historian and writer Miren Jaio, and Raven Row’s director Alex Sainsbury, exploring what underpins Aranberri’s wide-ranging practice, how his complex research projects are generated, and how they unfold and intertwine, especially in relation to the works in Unequal Diameters.
Miren Jaio (born 1968) is a member of Bulegoa z/b, an office of art and knowledge based in Bilbao. She teaches Art History at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Ibon Aranberri (born 1969) has exhibited in numerous European institutions including in solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel (2007), Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona (2011), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2011), and Secession, Vienna (2014). He participated in documenta 12 (2007), Sydney Biennial 2008, and Busan Biennial 2012. A survey exhibition of his work will open at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid and Artium.Museao, Vitoria-Gasteiz, in November 2023.
6 Jun 2023
FESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive
FESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema
With June Givanni (chair), Mohamed Challouf, Jihan El-Tahri, Aboubakar Sanogo and Keith Shiri
Since its establishment in 1969, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso has been considered one of the most important festivals of the African, and later the African diaspora’s, filmic imagination. Chaired by June Givanni, this panel charts and explores FESPACO’s histories and legacies.
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